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{{Short description|Mosque in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China}}
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| name                  = Ammar Mosque and Osman Ramju Sadick Islamic Centre
| native_name           = 愛群清真寺林士德伊斯蘭中心
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| religious_affiliation = [[Islam]]
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| location              = No. 40, Oi Kwan Road, [[Wan Chai]], [[Hong Kong]], [[China]]
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| architect             = [[Ramju Sadick]]<ref name="Ho 2002">{{Cite magazine |last=Ho |first=Wai-Yip |date=2002 |title=Contested Mosques in Hong Kong |url=https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A2727469/view |magazine=ISIM Newsletter |issue=10 |page=14 |hdl=1887/16773 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>
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| capacity              = 700 worshipers<ref name="islam1">{{Cite web |title=Masjids / Islamic Centres in H.K. |url=http://www.islam.org.hk/eng/E-HKmosque.asp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131002043353/http://www.islam.org.hk/eng/E-HKmosque.asp |archive-date=2 October 2013 |access-date=21 April 2014 |website=islam.org.hk}}</ref>
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The '''Ammar Mosque and Osman Ramju Sadick Islamic Centre''' ({{zh|t=愛群清真寺林士德伊斯蘭中心|s=爱群清真寺林士德伊斯兰中心|first=t|p=Àiqún Qīngzhēnsì Línshìdé Yīsīlán Zhōngxīn}}) or '''Wan Chai Mosque''' is a mosque and Islamic centre in [[Wan Chai]], [[Hong Kong]].<ref name="islam1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mosques in Hong Kong |url=http://www.islam.org.hk/eng/E-address_mosque.asp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131002032123/http://www.islam.org.hk/eng/E-address_mosque.asp |archive-date=2 October 2013 |access-date=21 April 2014 |website=islam.org.hk}}</ref> It is the third mosque built in Hong Kong.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ho |first=Wai-Yip |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IPm4DU8MMNIC&q=chai+wan+mosque+opens+in&pg=PA31 |title=Islam and China's Hong Kong: Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-203-51577-8 |location=Abingdon, Oxon}}</ref>
==History==
===First building===
The original building of this mosque can be traced back to the first Muslim cemetery in Hong Kong located at 7 Seymore Street where there were only five or six burials took place. By that time, the Ammar Mosque was just a small mosque built adjacent to the cemetery which was used primarily to offer [[Salat al-Janazah|funeral prayer]]. However, once the Muslim population increased, Muslims living nearby the mosque began to use it for daily prayers as well. The earliest grave can be traced back to the year of 1864. The site is now used for Jewish synagogue and the Muslim cemetery was moved to [[Happy Valley Muslim Cemetery]].
===Second building===
After [[World War II]], the new Ammar Mosque was constructed. In December 1978, the land in which the mosque was built was requisitioned by the [[British Hong Kong]] government for the construction of the [[Aberdeen Tunnel]]. The government offered them a new plot of land in the current location of Ammar Mosque at the Oi Kwan Road in [[Wan Chai]] and paid $2.5&nbsp;million towards the re-provisioning for the new mosque.
===Current building===
The construction of the current mosque building started in September 1979 with funds from the [[Islamic Union of Hong Kong]] and was formally opened on 14 September 1981. In 2012, the mosque underwent major renovation which the cost of [[Hong Kong dollar|HK$]] 14 million which lasted for 6 months. This includes the installation of new central air conditioning system, CCTV, new outer painting colour, replacement of toilet and ablution areas, new study rooms etc.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=September 2012 |title=Masjid Ammar & O.R. Sadick Islamic Centre |url=http://www.iuhk.org/Eng/Publication/Newsletter/2012_09/2012_09nl.pdf |url-status=dead |magazine=IU Newsletter |page=3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005073411/http://www.iuhk.org/Eng/Publication/Newsletter/2012_09/2012_09nl.pdf |archive-date=5 October 2013 |access-date=24 March 2014}}</ref>
==Architecture==
The mosque was designed by a Chinese Muslim, [[Ramju Sadick]]. The centre of the mosque is an eight-storey complex with multi-purpose facilities, such as ablution halls for men and women on the first floor, mosque male prayer hall on the second floor, mosque female prayer hall on the third floor and Chinese restaurant,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chang |first=Derrick |date=8 March 2010 |title=Hong Kong Halal Food: Islamic Centre Canteen |url=http://travel.cnn.com/hong-kong/none/halal-dim-sum-212805 |url-status=dead |website=CNN Travel |access-date=22 December 2014 |archive-date=22 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222190455/http://travel.cnn.com/hong-kong/none/halal-dim-sum-212805 }}</ref> Halal bakery, medical services, classrooms, library, offices for Imam and Quran teachers, conference and seminar rooms on the fourth until eighth floor .
==Activities==
Ammar mosque houses the headquarters of [[Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong]] and [[Hong Kong Islamic Youth Association]]. The mosque regularly holds Islamic workshops every weekends. It also holds classes for newly converts to Islam and proper Quran reading. Occasionally, the mosque hosts tour visits by school or university students on organised field trips.
==Transport==
The building is accessible east from [[Wan Chai station]] and also west from [[Causeway Bay station]].
==See also==
* [[Islam in Hong Kong]]
* [[Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong]]
* [[List of mosques in Hong Kong]]
==References==
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[[Category:Wan Chai]]